[llvm-dev] TI 59 backend

[Friedman, Eli via llvm-dev]

On 3/14/2018 12:05 PM, philippe.tivolle at free.fr wrote:
> Hello Bruce and Eli,
>
> Yes, you are definitely right: indirect access to registers is possible through IND XX instruction. So, no worry on that side.

Oh, okay, I didn't look closely.
> My concern is about STO instruction description in TI59InstrInfo.td file. It looks impossible to me to categorize this instruction as a "classical" N-bytes long instruction (as N fully depends on the value you want to store). Could it be a show stopper to implement a backend ?
It should be easy to handle: just treat it as three different 
instructions, each of which has a fixed size.

-Eli

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